The Associated Press featured this story from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette about opposition to a permit granted to a industrial pig farm located on a tributary of the Buffalo River near Mount Judea in Newton County. Here's the gem:

Much of the public outcry stems from the perception that the (Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality) did nothing to alert local residents that a confined animal-feeding-operation permit was being considered throughout 2012. Although the department did run two advertisements in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for public-comment sessions for all such permits being considered throughout Arkansas, nothing in the ads mentioned the Mount Judea site or Newton County specifically. A department spokesman confirmed that the agency did not contact Newton County officials or the National Park Service directly, nor did it run any advertisements in local newspapers.

I contacted Jeff Dezort, editor of the Jasper-based Newton County Times, for his take.

"The ADEQ has its regulations and they were met," Dezort wrote in an email Monday. "Shame on me and other agencies for not keeping an eye on the agency. You can bet I am looking at their website more often now and I have contact names and addresses in my email list."

Dezort writes the community is "split 50-50 with agriculture industry arguing for property rights and the conservationists and tourism businesses upset with ADEQ."